Freemelt to establish first North American application centre with HAMR

October 3, 2024

HAMR has installed a Freemelt ONE at its Pittsburgh facility (Courtesy Freemelt)
HAMR has installed a Freemelt ONE at its Pittsburgh facility (Courtesy Freemelt)

Freemelt-Americas, Inc, a subsidiary of Freemelt, headquartered in Mölndal, Sweden, has entered a strategic agreement with HAMR Industries LCC, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, to establish an application centre at HAMR’s Neighbourhood 91 facility. As Freemelt’s first North American application centre, the location is intended to support the commercialisation of the company’s eMelt Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing machine.

HAMR is a technology and manufacturing company specialising in advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for applications operating in harsh and extreme conditions for the energy and defence industries. Neighborhood 91 is an end-to-end Additive Manufacturing production campus, bringing together a complete AM supply chain designed to reduce costs and lead-times, fostering innovation and collaboration within the AM industry.

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Freemelt’s Regional President America, Darin Everett commented, “Thanks to Dr Michael Schmitt, CEO of HAMR Industries, his team, and this new application centre, we are strengthening our capability to meet the growing demand from industrial and government customers. With joint resources, we can meet increasing requests for projects, feasibility studies, and engineering support in material process and application development, during the transitions from AM research to serial production.

“With HAMR Industries and Neighborhood 91’s expertise in metal Additive Manufacturing, R&D, and production, we ensure that eMELT will be exposed to new government and industrial business opportunities within defence and energy, driving the commercialisation of eMELT across North America.”

HAMR industries LCC CEO, Senior Research Scientist Michael P Schmitt, PhD, added, “HAMR is excited to have a Freemelt ONE installed in our facility here in Pittsburgh. On-site E-PBF capabilities will provide a unique opportunity for us to jointly develop this incredible technology towards critical defence, energy, and industrial applications using materials like tungsten, refractory high entropy alloys, and OFHC (Oxygen-Free High Conductivity) copper.  This is the first step towards providing domestic production capacity within E-PBF using the eMELT system.

“Establishing this collaboration with Freemelt also demonstrates the value of Neighborhood 91 and an Additive Manufacturing ecosystem, where a regional concentration of academic knowledge and industry know-how attract new technology and foster an environment of growth,” Schmitt explained. ”We look forward to working with Darin and the Freemelt team to demonstrate E-PBF for components in extreme environments.”

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